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The Way we Were: Liverpool 1970: continuity and change

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Barbara Tearle
Affiliation:
Barbara Tearle, President of BIALL and Bodleian Law Librarian, looks at the contrasts between the first BIALL conference in 1970 and the conference in 2002. Her paper was presented at the 33rd Annual Study Conference of BIALL

Extract

Last year in Cork when I added my voice to that of BIALL's incoming chairman to encourage attendance at the 2002 conference at Liverpool, I reminded delegates that Liverpool would be a return to the venue of BIALL's first conference. This announcement met with reactions ranging from “so what”, “not another anniversary” to a fascination with what it was like in the “olden days”. Gradually BIALL's Chair and others (Brian Murray of Legal Library Services in particular) persuaded me to give a session at the conference. Brian was insistent that Liverpool 1970 was part of the heritage of BIALL members and that they ought to be reminded of it from time to time. I should like to acknowledge help in preparing this paper from Mary Blake and Derek Way and the invaluable aide memoire of Mary Blake's history of BIALL (Blake, 2000).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 2002

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